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Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have… — Janine Antoni
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are… — Umberto Eco
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the… — Susan Sontag
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions:… — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff… — Banksy
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi
The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is… — Linda Gordon
When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when… — Mencius
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our… — A. Theodore Tuttle
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now. — George Eliot
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning. — David Steindl-Rast
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we… — Rachel Naomi Remen
'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for… — Stephen Covey
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. — Unknown Author
Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes. — Pablo Casals
My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean… — Gerhard Richter
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary… — Gerhard Richter
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself… — Ludwig von Mises
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives. — Edvard Munch
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from… — Marc Chagall
The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is… — William Lane Craig
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.… — William Lane Craig
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. — Stephen Jay Gould

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